We welcome you to EBM Consult and hope that you find the medical information, images, and tools to not only help you improve your basic medical knowledge, but serve to give you the resources needed to further integrate evidence-based information with previously learned knowledge, clinical experience, and in a manner that is patient oriented.  We believe that it is only when health care providers appropriately understand the clinical application of medical information within the context of its available evidence that we can truly begin to practice "evidence-based medicine". 

In order to do this, we must consider the data available as it is, good or bad, and with its strengths and weaknesses.  You may even find that some things we have learned over the years to be "classic or commonly seen" are not always based on high quality evidence or is even really "commonly seen".  Furthermore, you might begin to realize that some things we do in clinical practice is not even based on good evidence or has actually never been studied.  Regardless, as health care professionals we need to be able to access, efficiently find, appropriately interpret, and apply the available evidence as it is in a manner that is patient specific. 

As such, it is our goal to provide you not only with concise, easy to understand general medical information, anatomical and radiographic images, and other tools that you might need from time to time, but to also summarize the best available evidence for a specific topic. Furthermore, we are committed to giving all health care professionals access to our core medical information for free with the hope of also being able to help medical practices or institutions around the world with limited access to resources.  Why?  To help all of us meet these goals in improving our knowledge of evidence-based health care so that we can best help the people we have been given the privilege and opportunity to serve.  

This is certainly a big task and will be a work in progress, but we have to start somewhere and hope that you find the information useful.  

Anthony J. Busti, MD, PharmD, FNLA, FAHA
Founder and Editor-in-Chief

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Anthony J. Busti, MD, PharmD, FNLA, FAHA
Clinical Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical School
Attending Physician
Parkland Hospital 
Dallas, Texas
Bio

CONTENT EDITORS & REVIEWERS:

Christopher Bailey, MD
Radiology Resident
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Sean C. Dupont, MD
General Surgery Resident
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Ronald G. Hall II, PharmD, MSCS, BCPS
Associate Professor
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
School of Pharmacy
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Program Director
Dose Optimization and Outcomes Research Program
Dallas, TX

Jeremiah Hinson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Dylan Kellogg, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
Arnot Ogden Medical Center
Elmira, NY

Bret A. Kilker, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician
Department of Emergency Medicine
Kaiser Permanente
Riverside, CA

Lauren Lyons, BSN, RN
Registered Nurse
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital
The Woodlands, TX

Benjamin Nacev, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine Resident
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Donald S. Nuzum, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDE
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Wingate University
Wingate, NC

Karolina Paziana, MD
Attending Physician
Mercy Medical Center
Redding, CA

Anita P. Rahman, PharmD, BCPS
Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist
Department of Pharmacy
Parkland Hospital
Dallas, TX

Linda Regan, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Assistant Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD